Communication
Sending someone a text
What is a form of communication
A mutual agreement and understanding between two or more people.
What is a commitment?
Where a friend is said to be placed when wanting a romantic relationship with another friend who prefers to remain “only” friends.
What is the " friend zone"
This factor assists in this theory
What is equitable?
This element is an active motivation to persist with a relationship
What is conative element
This can be direct or indirect
What is communication?
This outweighs the costs in relationships
What are benefits?
This is transformed through communication
What are relationships?
This is based off the process of exchange
What are human interactions
these are approval, support, compliments, or general positivity
What are rewards?
This is one key way that people push the envelope in relationships through indirect communication.
What is flirting?
This assumes that you "get what you give"
What is fairness
This involves keeping the relationship going and at the desired level of intimacy
What is relational maintenance?
Social interactions between people in a dyad are steered by these two things.
What are rewards and costs
In commitment terms, this element has an increasing tendency or expectation to experience life in dyadic terms.
What is Affective Element
This is the act of keeping the relationship going through communication
What is maintenance?
These are pains tolerable in order to retain the good things that they see the relationship.
What is an abusive relationship?
These are inherent pleasures from relationships
What are costs and benefits
A theory originating in sociology
What is Social Exchange theory
A belief in the long-term endurance of a relationship.
What is Cognitive Elements
This is checking with someone or giving them a compliment.
What is preventative maintenance?
This is a derivative of Social Exchange Theory.
What is committment?
This function indicates the type and nature of the relationship
What is indexical function of communication
This person developed in the context of a psychology of personal relationships
Who is Rusbult and associates.
These 3 elements each represents a different element of psychological attachment.
cognitive, conative, and affective